{"id":2766,"date":"2007-09-18T00:25:33","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T08:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/09\/cosmic_justice_will_come_when_they_change_his_salary_package_to_a_suggested_donation.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T11:20:40","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T16:20:40","slug":"cosmic_justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/cosmic_justice.html","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Justice Will Come When They Change His Salary Package To A &#8220;Suggested Donation&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, you shouldn&#8217;t worry about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/i_just_went_all.html\">stiffing the Met<\/a> now that you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/62816\">know how much they get paid<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Museum leadership has become a kind of star system, in which a small group of directors can pull in seven-figure bonuses from boards eager to hang onto the talent.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philippe de Montebello, received a $3.25 million one-time payment as a reward for having stayed at the museum through his 70th birthday. His total compensation for the year was $4,557,342, making him the top earner in the Chronicle of Philanthropy&#8217;s annual survey of nonprofit executive compensation, beating out presidents of major hospitals and universities.<\/p>\n<p>Other museum directors in Mr. de Montebello&#8217;s earning class include the director of the Museum of Modern Art, Glenn Lowry, who in addition to a compensation package that in 2004 was $1.28 million, between 1995 and 2003 received a total of $5.35 million from a trust set up by museum trustees. The former chairman, Robert Menschel, and president of MoMA, Marie-Jos\u00c3\u00a9e Kravis, said in a letter to the New York Times that the trust helped to secure the recruitment of Mr. Lowry to the museum in 1995. In 2006, Mr. Lowry received $901,766 in compensation.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, you shouldn&#8217;t worry about stiffing the Met now that you know how much they get paid: Museum leadership has become a kind of star system, in which a small group of directors can pull in seven-figure bonuses from boards eager to hang onto the talent. Last year, the director of the Metropolitan Museum of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grrr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}